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2 Billion BUSD to Be Burned by Binance After Paxos Stopped Issuing BUSD

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 16:26
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Yuri Molchan
Binance plans to get rid of whopping amount of its BUSD stablecoins
2 Billion BUSD to Be Burned by Binance After Paxos Stopped Issuing BUSD
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According to a recent Binance tweet, later today, the platform intended to move an astounding lump of its BUSD stablecoin to a dead wallet. Two billion of these tokens will be burned or have been burned already.

At the same time, a similar amount of ETH-based BUSD will be released; these coins were used as collateral here.

Chinese crypto journalist and blogger Colin Wu added that according to recent data from Etherscan, the total number of BUSD tokens has shrunk from 16.1 billion to 12.3 billion at the moment.

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As reported by U.Today earlier, the emitter of BUSD, Paxos Trust, got in trouble with the U.S. Commission on securities and exchanges for not registering the Binance stablecoin as a security. So far, the SEC has marked BUSD as an unregistered security with all the negative legal consequences that may follow.

Paxos is a regulated issuer that has been minting BUSD since 2019 — for more than three years now.

By now, the NYDFS regulator of New York has ordered Paxos to stop minting BUSD.

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Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.